Mr Paul Scott

Senior Lecturer in Law (School of Law)

telephone: 01413308551
email: Paul.Scott@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Paul Scott studied law at the University of Glasgow (LLB, PhD) and the London School of Economics (LLM). His doctoral studies were funded by the University of Glasgow and the Modern Law Review. He was previously Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Southampton.

Research interests

Paul has a range of interests across the areas constitutional and administrative law, as well as in aspects of legal and constitutional theory. Of particular interest to him are republican constitutional theory, Scottish public law, and national security constitutionalism (the focus of much of his current research). He has published - and has work forthcoming - in a range of specialist and general legal journals.

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2025

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2025) National Security Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth Five Eyes States. Series: Hart studies in justice and security. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781509971947

2024

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 and Ó Floinn, Micheál ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-5979 (2024) Technical backdoors and legal backdoors: regulating encryption in the UK. King's Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2024.2444720) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) Judicial biography in the national security constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘rather silly little secret racket’. Modern Law Review, 87(3), pp. 604-639. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12856)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) The Crown, consent, and devolution. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 61-85. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0873)

2023

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) ‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023. Legal Studies, (doi: 10.1017/lst.2023.39) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Corruption and the constitutional position of the Overseas Territories. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2210920) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Strong Executive, Weak Parliament?’. In: Wheatle, Se-shauna and O’Loughlin, Elizabeth (eds.) Diverse Voices in Public Law. Series: Diverse voices. Bristol University Press, pp. 53-69. ISBN 9781529220759

2022

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) Authorising crime: the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021. Modern Law Review, 85(5), pp. 1218-1244. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12751)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) ‘Economic well-being’ in national security law and practice. King's Law Journal, 33(3), pp. 358-385. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2022.2135252)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) The first interception provision: Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Journal of Legal History, 43(3), pp. 352-379. (doi: 10.1080/01440365.2022.2140487)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) K D Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, The Cold War, and the Rule of Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(2), pp. 280-282. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2022.0772)[Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) New Labour's secret national security constitution. In: Gordon, Michael and Tucker, Adam (eds.) The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On. Series: Hart studies in constitutional law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509924646

2021

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Renouncing British citizenship. Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 35, pp. 7-27.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Writing the United Kingdom constitution. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 41(1), pp. 126-127. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2020.1767860)[Book Review]

2020

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in Scots Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(3), pp. 421-426. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0657)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Book review: (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The Privy Council and the constitutional legacies of empire. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), pp. 261-283.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Law, non-law, and torture: from the consolidated guidance to the principles. Public Law, 2020(Jul), pp. 488-507.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Passports, the right to travel, and national security in the Commonwealth. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 69(2), pp. 365-395. (doi: 10.1017/S0020589320000093)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The rule of law against judicial review? The quartet in Scots administrative law. In: Fifty Years of Modern Judicial Review. Hart Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Once more unto the breach: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(1), pp. 103-109. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0605)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The contemporary security vetting landscape. Intelligence and National Security, 35(1), pp. 54-71. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2019.1665688)

2019

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Hybrid institutions in the national security constitution: the case of the Commissioners. Legal Studies, 39(3), pp. 432-454. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2018.44)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Public Law, 2019(1), pp. 228-232. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Faith in authority and the (political) constitution. King's Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 21-42. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2019.1594616)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Secrecy and surveillance: lessons from the law of IMSI catchers. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33(3), pp. 349-371. (doi: 10.1080/13600869.2019.1569872)

2018

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2018) The National Security Constitution. Series: Hart studies in security and justice. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509911011 (doi: 10.5040/9781509911042)

2017

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Secret evidence in civil proceedings resulting in restrictive measures in the United Kingdom. In: Vogel, Benjamin (ed.) Secret Evidence in Court Proceedings. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) General warrants, thematic warrants, bulk warrants: property interference for national security purposes. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 68(2), pp. 99-121.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Ouster clauses and national security: judicial review of the investigatory powers tribunal. Public Law, 2017(3), pp. 355-362.

Iljadica, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5414-7866 and Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Intellectual property and national security. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 12(1), pp. 49-61. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpw178)

McCorkindale, Christopher, McHarg, Aileen and Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) The courts, devolution, and constitutional review. University of Queensland Law Journal, 36(2), pp. 289-310.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Authority to carry in the United Kingdom: the right to travel, the privatisation of security and the rule of law. European Public Law, 23(4), pp. 787-810.

2016

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) An inherent jurisdiction to protect the public interest: from PII to ‘secret trials’. King's Law Journal, 27(2), pp. 259-275. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2016.1220689)

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Democracy, law and relationships of domination – a response to ‘can republicanism tame public health?'. Public Health Ethics, 9(2), pp. 134-135. (doi: 10.1093/phe/phw023) (PMID:27551293)

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Case comment: R (Wang Yam) v Central Criminal Court. European Human Rights Law Review, 2016(2), pp. 195-200.

2015

McCorkindale, Chris and Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Public interest judicial review in cross-border perspective. King's Law Journal, 26(3), pp. 412-439. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2015.1071532)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) The vanishing law of Crown act of state. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 367-386.

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Entick v Carrington and the legal protection of property. In: Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul (eds.) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law (9). Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 131-160. ISBN 9781849465588 (doi: 10.5040/9781474202268.ch-005)

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Political publicity and improper purposes: Aberdeen City Council’s independence intervention. Public Law, 2015(2), pp. 275-289.

Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (Eds.) (2015) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781849465588

2014

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law, by T.R.S. Allan, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 361pp., hardback, £50.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-968506-6. Law Quarterly Review, 130, pp. 162-165. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) Crossing the Rubicon: closed hearings in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(1), pp. 88-93.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) On 'domestic' law and the law of human rights: Osborn v The Parole Board. King's Law Journal, 25(2), pp. 147-154. (doi: 10.5235/09615768.25.2.147)

2013

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2013) (Political) constitutions and (Political) constitutionalism. German Law Journal, 14, pp. 2157-2184.

2011

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) Constitutional Review Under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, by Aileen Kavanagh, (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 455 pp., paperback, £34, ISBN: 978-0-52-168219-0. European Human Rights Law Review, 2011(6), pp. 752-754. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) NW Barber, The Constitutional State Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), Oxford Constitutional Theory, 2010. xiii + 199 pp. ISBN 9780199585014. £50. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3), pp. 484-486. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0063)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 47.

Articles

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) The Crown, consent, and devolution. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 61-85. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0873)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Renouncing British citizenship. Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 35, pp. 7-27.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in Scots Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(3), pp. 421-426. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0657)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The Privy Council and the constitutional legacies of empire. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), pp. 261-283.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Law, non-law, and torture: from the consolidated guidance to the principles. Public Law, 2020(Jul), pp. 488-507.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Faith in authority and the (political) constitution. King's Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 21-42. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2019.1594616)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Ouster clauses and national security: judicial review of the investigatory powers tribunal. Public Law, 2017(3), pp. 355-362.

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Case comment: R (Wang Yam) v Central Criminal Court. European Human Rights Law Review, 2016(2), pp. 195-200.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) The vanishing law of Crown act of state. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 367-386.

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Political publicity and improper purposes: Aberdeen City Council’s independence intervention. Public Law, 2015(2), pp. 275-289.

Scott, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) Crossing the Rubicon: closed hearings in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(1), pp. 88-93.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2013) (Political) constitutions and (Political) constitutionalism. German Law Journal, 14, pp. 2157-2184.

Books

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Book review: (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Public Law, 2019(1), pp. 228-232. [Book Review]

Edited Books

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Grants

Dr Scott has been awarded the following:

2018

£3,300 was awarded to Dr Scott by the Society of Legal Scholars small projects and events fund, for a workshop on 'Constitutional Legacies of Empire'.

£1,360 was awarded to Dr Scott by the 'SLS Research Activities Fund 2018', for a project entitled ' The First Interception Provision: an archival investigation of Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920'.

Supervision

Beril Taskin Kapusuzoglu - 'Regulating the Regulators'

Kaya, Elif Busra
How much administrative power is “bearable” in a judicial review within the UK’s constitutional order in the 21st century?

Teaching

Paul contributes to the teaching of Constitutional Law 1 and Law and Government. He convenes the Constitutional Law Honours module.

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